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Editorial: How to Be a More Effective Author

May 8, 2023   Filed under Articles, Blog, Featured, Publishing, Resources, Writing  

Looking for top tips from the editors of Monthly Weather Review on how to be a more effective author?  The November 2022 issue has an editorial by the 21 editors with our top tips from planning the paper, writing the paper, addressing a rejected manuscript, and responding to reviewers and editors. In addition, we have […]

The Five Most Common Problems with Introductions

February 2, 2022   Filed under Articles, Blog, Featured, Writing  

Source: https://scribemedia.com/write-book-introduction/The introduction is often the toughest part of a scientific paper to write. Authors looking for good role models in the published literature are often seduced by less-than-ideal examples that look superficially good and easy to emulate, but are not as effective as they could be. Here, I indicate five of the most common […]

Eliminate excessive and unnecessary acronyms from your scientific writing

December 3, 2021   Filed under Articles, Blog, Featured, Popular, Posters, Publishing, Reviewing, Writing  

Source: https://sspinnovations.com/blog/know-your-gis-and-non-gis-abbreviations-acronyms-and-initialisms/ I can’t say that there was a specific moment when I noticed it happening more often. Either it is increasing in frequency or it is testing my patience more these days. That is the tendency for authors to introduce numerous and unnecessary acronyms in their manuscripts. These authors abbreviate phrases, geographical locations, and […]

Get your paper accepted faster: Responding to reviewers’ comments

July 10, 2021   Filed under Articles, Blog, Featured, Publishing, Reviewing, Uncategorized, Writing  

Getting your manuscript accepted at a journal can typically take one to three rounds of back and forth with reviewers, each round taking one to three months. In my experience as Editor, sometimes the process could go faster because of things that the author could have done better or done differently when writing their responses […]

Handout: Common Errors in Student Science Writing

January 12, 2021   Filed under Blog, Featured, Resources, Writing  

For many years, I have compiled a list of common errors that my students have made in writing scientific papers. I have printed it out and handed it out to several cohorts of first-year undergraduate students over the past few years. I hope this short guide to student writing has helped them improve. It’s been […]

“Don’t use the same word twice.”

July 15, 2020   Filed under Articles, Blog, Featured, Potpourri, Publishing, Reviewing, Writing  

There’s always that memory that you have from your childhood that still influences your life today. When I was probably 8 years old, someone showed me a centipede on the ground and then said, “Don’t touch it. It’s poisonous.” Of course, now I know better, but I still can’t help but be unrealistically reluctant today. […]

Eloquent Science Workshops for Your Organization

I am delivering online and in-person workshops on scientific-communication skills designed specifically for your needs.

Chapter 5: “The Motivation to Write”, plus Video: “Overcoming Barriers to Writing”

March 30, 2020   Filed under Articles, Blog, Excerpts, Featured, Writing  

“Writing can be a struggle, or it can be fun. Most likely it is both. The attitude with which we approach the writing project can determine its success. Lack of motivation and writer’s block can prevent us from beginning, continuing, completing, and enjoying writing projects. This chapter provides strategies for overcoming these obstacles to our […]

How to download a reference from AMS Journals Online

June 12, 2017   Filed under Blog, Featured, Potpourri, Writing  

. 1. Go to an article, say http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/MWR-D-16-0460.1 2. On the red bar, click on the download button (third icon from left). 3. This screen appears: http://journals.ametsoc.org/action/showCitFormats?doi=10.1175%2FMWR-D-16-0460.1 4. At the bottom, you can copy the text for the reference list, including the doi. Steenburgh, W.J. and L.S. Campbell, 2017: The OWLeS IOP2b Lake-Effect Snowstorm: Shoreline […]

“Improving Together: Better Science Writing Through Peer Learning”

August 8, 2016   Filed under Blog, Featured, Potpourri, Reviewing, Writing  

How do you motivate early-career researchers to improve their communication skills? Mathew Stiller-Reeve from the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research in Bergen, Norway, and colleagues reveal how they were able to develop their writing and communication skills through the development of the ClimateSnack project, described in this journal article in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. […]

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